{"id":399797,"date":"2026-01-10T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399797\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T20:00:07","slug":"i-dont-want-my-taxes-dollars-paying-for-masked-thugs-in-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/399797\/","title":{"rendered":"I Don&#8217;t Want My Taxes Dollars Paying for &#8220;Masked Thugs&#8221; in ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/dave-matthews\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dave Matthews<\/a> says he doesn\u2019t want \u201cmy taxes to pay for ICE, to masked thugs to roam our streets and terrorize our communities and rip families apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The singer-songwriter shared an impassioned rebuke of ICE and the Trump administration following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis this past week. \u201cWe should be taking care of each other. We should be minding each other. We should be housing the homeless. We shouldn\u2019t be, you know, throwing people to the ground,\u201d the Dave Matthews Band frontman said in a video posted to Instagram on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhich brings me to Renee Nicole Good. Murdered in front of her fellow citizens in Minneapolis, murdered in the streets. And no matter what narrative this administration is trying to sell us, we can see the videos,\u201d Matthews continued. \u201cMaybe if they show you one and they slow it down and they tell you where to look, you might think, maybe there\u2019s a chance, maybe there\u2019s a chance. That the gunman was felt threatened. But from most angles, near and far, it looks like she was trying to get away, and he shot her three times in the head, murdered in cold blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis administration, these people who are trying to tell us not to believe what we see,\u201d Matthews continued. \u201cIt is so horrific. I don\u2019t understand how you can claim that [Good] was ramming their cars, or that she was attacking them. There\u2019s nothing to suggest that. And it\u2019s mind-boggling and it\u2019s deeply upsetting. To me and to so many people, and we can\u2019t just let it slide.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dave Matthews says he doesn\u2019t want \u201cmy taxes to pay for ICE, to masked thugs to roam our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-399797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}